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Florida’s Streamsong resort
will become a 54-hole facility
later this year when the new
Black course, designed by Gil Hanse,
ASGCA, and his team, opens.
The course is still growing in,
but, as the construction work was
finished last summer, has already got
very good grass coverage. The course
is set to open in September 2017.
Hanse said: “We were given a very
big canvas to work on, and with
that amount of space we needed to
try and find the best routing to take
advantage of the natural attributes of
the property.
“Once we settled on the routing,
the construction of the holes
became an exercise in managing
the sand on the reclaimed site, so
as to accentuate these landforms
and ultimately create the features
of the golf course. Our guys on site
did a remarkable job of finding the
perfect balance between creativity
and practicality and we had to adopt
some unorthodox methods to build
some of our features.
“All of the greens and surrounds
have been planted with mini-verde
bermudagrass, so we are expecting
a lot of creative recoveries for
golfers from the approaches and
surrounds.”
The Black course at Streamsong features wide fairways,
expanses of sand and highly contoured greens
DIGEST
Huge scale for Streamsong Black
Water solution for Dairy Creek
New golf course
Drought management
A ndy Staples, ASGCA, is
beginning work on a plan to
reconfigure the popular Dairy
Creek municipal golf course in San
Luis Obispo County, California, to
deal with the ongoing consequences
of the drought in the state.
Staples says: “Our intention is to
turn this negative into a positive by
looking for innovative approaches in
continuing to provide a quality golf
product, but with a much smaller
overall footprint.” He is expecting to
complete plans by June 2017.
Phoenix Open
tests new standard
A new sustainability standard
was piloted at the 2017 Waste
Management Phoenix Open at
TPC Scottsdale. Developed by
Waste Management and the
Golf Environment Organization,
it will complement similar facility
management standards.
Photos: Larry Lambrecht
Staples is engaging with the local community to inform his plans
Photo: Andy Staples
Photo: GEO